Sports Archive

Coming off a couple of seasons with only two wins, Baker’s girls basketball team is working hard to turn things around this season.

Head coach Chelsea Medley has a long list of where she wants to see team improvement.

As a sophomore in 2020, Kayleb Wagner burst onto the Baker football scene, rushing for more than 1,000 yards.

He led the Gators in rushing in the state championship game as Baker won the title for the first time in 25 years.

The Baker football team was back on the field this week as the Gators started summer drills on June 13 under the direction of first-year head coach Barry Gardner.

The extra time off between the end of the school year has to do with the lofty expectations that go with being at Baker, and that’s to still be in the hunt for a championship deep into the playoffs.

For more than 20 years the Justin Richards Scholarship Baseball Tournament has been providing a deserving Crestview High School baseball player scholarship money to help with college expenses.

In past years high school teams from across the Deep South have made their way to the Hub City to play some good baseball and maybe spend a little time at the beach on Okaloosa Island or Destin.

Denzil Ware has made the long football journey home to Crestview.

A 2014 graduate, Ware was a four-star prospect who signed with Kentucky.

Joe Brunson might not have been born with a football in his hands, but a football was probably one of his first toys as a baby.

The son of Baker School athletic director and former Gator head coach, Matt Brunson, Joe has been around football his whole life.

History is for sale at Crestview High School.

Pieces of the old CHS court went on sale Tuesday afternoon and the sale continues today from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. and Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m.-11 a.m.

The warm weather that settled in on the Crestview High baseball field didn’t seem to bother the boys and girls that were there for a baseball camp.

Long a fixture in the community that kickoffs summer, the camp teaches children the fundamentals of baseball while emphasizing the fun that kids should have while playing the game.

Crestview’s Olivia Keith was among a handful of softball players from Okaloosa County to represent the East in the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star Game last Thursday night at Pensacola State.

Playing baseball at Laurel Hill, Dalton Raef was ready to see if he could hang with the guys from Crestview, Pace and Tate, who probably had a history class with more students in it than Raef’s graduating class had with 26 students.